Aspiration Prevention and Prophylaxis: Preoperative Considerations

Benumof and Hagberg's Airway Management: Third Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Tasch, Mark D ^a   Langeron, Olivier ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

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